"Sweet Blues! / Coming from a Black man's soul. / Oh Blues! / In a deep song voice and melancholy tone." Featuring over five dozen poems that meld lyric to narrative, The Weary Blues is the award-winning introduction to jazz poetry and one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.
"Sweet Blues! / Coming from a Black man's soul. / Oh Blues! / In a deep song voice and melancholy tone." Featuring over five dozen poems that meld lyric to narrative, The Weary Blues is the award-winning introduction to jazz poetry and one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.
Best known for his vivid and astute portrayals of Black life across the written page, Langston Hughes-born James Mercer Langston Hughes-(1901 - 1967) was a poet, playwright, writer and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance who founded jazz poetry. Raised mostly by his grandmother, Hughes was instilled with a lasting sense of racial pride and a love of books from a young age and though not supported by his father in his pursuit of writing, Hughes would attend Columbia with his father's aid in 1921, before leaving the very next year due to racial prejudice and a desire to focus on his poetry. Hughes first introduced his voice to the world in a 1921 issue of The Crisis where he published, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The poem would come to be known as his signature piece and five years later was included in his debut poetry collection, The Weary Blues. Establishing himself as a key player of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes would be one of a small group of Black intellectuals and artists of the movement who called themselves the Niggerati. Going on to write their manifesto, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Hughes' use of the literary medium differed heavily from the artistic aspirations of the Black middle class in that he desired to focus on highlighting the lives of working-class Black people and addressing divisions and prejudices that existed within the Black community itself. In a career spanning over four decades, Hughes would publish an award-winning novel (Not Without Laughter ), multiple plays-some in collaboration with Zora Neale Hurstons-(Mule Bone and Black Nativity), children's literature (Popo and Fifina) and even an autobiography (The Big Sea); among others in a large volume of work. In his personal life, Hughes maintained lifetime friendships with members of the movement and also is believed to have had private romantic and sexual relationships with men. While Hughes' emphasis on racial pride had begun to fall out of favor with new and coming movements of the younger generation, his contributions to the African-American literary canon and American literature at all could not be denied and as such at the time of his death was-and continues to be-one of the most talented and respected voices of a generation.
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Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader Proem The Weary Blues The Weary Blues Jazzonia Negro Dancers The Cat and the Saxophone Young Singer Cabaret To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead Harlem Night Club Nude Young Dancer Young Prostitute To a Black Dancer Song for a Banjo Dance Blues Fantasy Lenox Avenue: Midnight Dream Variations Dream Variation Winter Moon Poème d’Automne Fantasy in Purple March Moon The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Negro Speaks of Rivers Cross The Jester The South As I Grew Older Aunt Sue’s Stories Poem Black Pierrot A Black Pierrot Harlem Night Song Songs to the Dark Virgin Ardella Poem—To the Black Beloved When Sue Wears Red Pierrot Water-Front Streets Water-Front Streets A Farewell Long Trip Port Town Sea Calm Caribbean Sunset Young Sailor Seascape Natcha Sea Charm Death of an Old Seaman Shadows in the Sun Beggar Boy Troubled Woman Suicide’s Note Sick Room Soledad To the Dark Mercedes Mexican Market Woman After Many Springs Young Bride The Dream Keeper Poem (To F.S.) Our Land Our Land Lament for Dark Peoples Afraid Poem—For the Portrait of an African Boy Summer Night Disillusion Danse Africaine The White Ones Mother to Son Poem Epilogue
Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader Proem The Weary Blues The Weary Blues Jazzonia Negro Dancers The Cat and the Saxophone Young Singer Cabaret To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead Harlem Night Club Nude Young Dancer Young Prostitute To a Black Dancer Song for a Banjo Dance Blues Fantasy Lenox Avenue: Midnight Dream Variations Dream Variation Winter Moon Poème d’Automne Fantasy in Purple March Moon The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Negro Speaks of Rivers Cross The Jester The South As I Grew Older Aunt Sue’s Stories Poem Black Pierrot A Black Pierrot Harlem Night Song Songs to the Dark Virgin Ardella Poem—To the Black Beloved When Sue Wears Red Pierrot Water-Front Streets Water-Front Streets A Farewell Long Trip Port Town Sea Calm Caribbean Sunset Young Sailor Seascape Natcha Sea Charm Death of an Old Seaman Shadows in the Sun Beggar Boy Troubled Woman Suicide’s Note Sick Room Soledad To the Dark Mercedes Mexican Market Woman After Many Springs Young Bride The Dream Keeper Poem (To F.S.) Our Land Our Land Lament for Dark Peoples Afraid Poem—For the Portrait of an African Boy Summer Night Disillusion Danse Africaine The White Ones Mother to Son Poem Epilogue
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